Project Gutenberg is a very good site for everyone wanting to read classics or books published last century or before. It is a good site for people to access when a whole class is studying an title or needing access to an item where there are only a few hard copies available. Also these days more branch libraries are only keeping a selection of "popular" classics and there is usually one copy held at the main library.
Ebooks.com has many recent titles including the Stephanie Meyer vampire trilogy whicg is very popular now. I can see this being a popular site for people who buy their books (like them new pristine and instant)rather than using the library as they can either visit a book shop in person to see the new range (Borders, Whitcoulls) or purchase the ebook equivalent. I also checked a couple of subjects to see how current the books were e.g. travel. There were a few 2008 travel editions on Australia but not much on New Zealand. I also did a search on rugby and came up with the Australian brumbies but nothing on NZ - not that I am a rugby fan but seemed a good test.
I looked at the Kindle and as it is new it is very expensive and also limited to North America. Other companies are looking at producing something similar, will stick to my PC at the moment.
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